In 224 BC, Wang Jian and Meng Wu led an army of 600,000 to attack Chu again. After capturing Pingyu, Chu recruited national troops and ordered Xiang Yan to lead a decisive battle with the Qin army. Wang Jian adopted a strong wall to defend himself, avoid a decisive battle, and cultivated his spirit.

A combat policy of accumulating sharpness and waiting for an opportunity to attack.

The Chu army challenged many times but refused to come out. Wang Jian lived with the soldiers, cared about their diet and daily life, paid attention to their combination of work and rest, and carried out stone-treating and long jumping exercises to improve the soldiers' physical strength and combat skills. The Chu army was unable to fight.

After a long period of slacking off in fighting spirit, Xiang Yan had to lead his army to retreat east.

Wang Jian seized the fighter opportunity, selected elite troops in front, carried out pursuit, and defeated the Chu army in the south of Qi (now southeast of Suzhou, Anhui) and killed Xiang Yan. The Qin army took advantage of the situation to capture many cities of Chu.

In 223 BC, Wang Jian and Meng Wu led the Qin army to continue to attack the Chu State in depth, and captured the Chu capital Shouchun (now southwest of Shou County, Anhui), captured the Chu King Fu Chu, and Chu was killed.

That is, one month after the Jiuzhou tripod fell into Sishui, the Chu State, which had been stalemate with Qin for a year, was defeated!

The joint actions of Confucianism and Mohism were still alive before the Confucianism and Mohism began, and the attention of both families was attracted by the general trend of the world!

When Qin destroyed Han, Qi thought that South Korea was a small country anyway, and it would be destroyed sooner or later. When Qin destroyed Zhao, Qi thought that Qin and Zhao were old enemies, so it was normal to fight around, regardless of Qi.

What's going on in the country? When Qin destroyed Yan State, Qi said, "Who asked Prince Dan of Yan to come up with a bad idea to assassinate the King of Qin." When Qin destroyed Wei State, Qi believed that silence was gold and pretended not to see it."

When Qin destroyed Chu, Qi no longer dared to speak out!

King Qi was frightened all day long, afraid that Qin's butcher knife would slash at him. As the saying goes, everyone knows Sima Zhao's heart. This world is not because you want peace, others will give you peace. Everything depends on your strength.

Three years later, in 221 BC, after the destruction of Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu and Yan, the King of Qin ordered Wang Ben to lead the Qin army to attack Qi on the grounds that Qi refused Qin envoys to visit Qi.

Such a reason for not being careless has shown Qin's determination to unify the world!

In a panic, King Jian of Qi ordered the main force of Qi army to gather in the west in a hurry, preparing to resist the Qin attack.

But unexpectedly, the Qin army avoided the main force in the western part of the Qi army and went south from the original southern part of Yan State to the Qi capital Linzi. The Qi army caught the Qin army off guard and collapsed. King Jian of Qi went out of the city to surrender.

Qi State was destroyed. Qin State unified the world and set up Qi County and Langya County in Qi.

In the same year, Qin State was established and Ying Zheng called himself the First Emperor!

At this time, the Jiuzhou tripod had been transported to the foot of Mount Tai, and the Qin army on the banks of the Sishui River had already evacuated! The Qin State lost a tripod while transporting the Jiuzhou tripod, which had been left behind by everyone. Now the whole world is in the Emperor Qin.

The shadow of dominating the world is trembling!

Qin Emperor Ying Zheng spent three years consolidating the regime, formulating laws, eliminating hidden dangers, and waiting for everything to be calmed down.

In 219 BC, the third year after Qin Shihuang unified China, Qin Shihuang led 70 civil and military ministers and Confucian scholars to Mount Tai to hold the Fengshan Ceremony.

The sacrifices during the Zhou Dynasty already had a very complete and cumbersome system. Since such activities were not held for a long time, the ministers did not know how to carry out the ceremony, so Qin Shihuang summoned Confucian scholars to ask.

Dozens of Confucian scholars who were with the emperor had their own opinions on how to sacrifice to the sky. Some doctors told Qin Shihuang that they should wrap the wheels of the carriage with catkins to avoid damaging every grass and tree on the mountain. Then they swept the floor and sacrificed them with

Its simplicity. This is obviously just a microcosm of the ancient ritual of worshiping mountain gods or offering sacrifices to heaven, and is far from the expectation of Qin Shihuang using Fengshan to show that he "swept the world and Baoju" was.

The most important thing is that the Nine Cauldrons are required to sacrifice to heaven according to the Zhou Li!

The tripod is a very important sacrificial weapon. The Nine Tripods are indispensable as the supreme artifact of the Chinese Sutra when offering sacrifices to heaven. After King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang, he used the Nine Tripods in Taishi Mountain to sacrifice the sky. If Emperor Qin Shihuang followed the example of King Wu of Zhou to sacrifice to heaven, the Nine Tripods were indispensable.

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It was not until this moment that a group of Confucian children suddenly realized why the Qin Emperor would transport the Nine Cauldrons to the foot of Mount Tai in advance. It turned out that as early as six years ago, before the Qin State unified the world, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng had already done his best to unify the world.

Preparation for the sacrifice of the heavens in Mount Tai for the Fengshan Festival!

All the Confucian disciples were shocked. If Qin Shihuang had said that he would destroy the two countries of Qi and Chu in three years and reorganize the mountains and rivers in three years. After the country was stable, he would go forward to worship the sky, and would be laughed at by the people of the world.

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But when Qin Emperor Ying Zheng stood at the foot of Mount Tai with the majesty of destroying the six kingdoms, everything changed to a level.

Instead, it became increasingly apparent that Emperor Qin Ying Zheng was very talented and had a long-term plan!

But the problem is that when Qin State transported the Jiuzhou tripod six years ago, a tripod was left in the Sishui River!

If the Nine Cauldrons are not complete, how can they be used to sacrifice to the sky? What’s even more ridiculous is that the tripod lost by the Qin army was actually the Yongzhou tripod representing the Qin State!

In this way, before the sacrifice to heaven began, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng was crazy ridiculed by Confucian disciples. Confucianism, which advocates governing the country with virtue, has long seen Qin State, which established the country with law, and saw that Qin Emperor Ying Zheng made such a big mistake.

He seized this handle and attacked wildly, opened the map cannon, and the Nine Cauldrons did not violate etiquette and law, etc., which included insinuations, reflecting that the Qin Emperor Ying Zhengde was not worthy of his position and was not qualified to sacrifice to the heavens!

He then repelled the Confucian scholars, opened the lane according to his own ideas, erected a monument on the top of Mount Tai, and held a seal ceremony. Then he went to nearby Liangfu Mountain to perform a Zen ceremony.

What's more coincidental is that on the way to worship the sky, heavy rain suddenly fell, and the Confucian scholars gloat and sarcasticly sarcasticly. But there is no right reason, because Qin Shihuang held a ceremony as the king of the world, which was ridiculed by Confucius at that time.

Ji Sun's trip to Mount Tai is also incomparable.

Afterwards, it was circulated that the Qin Emperor's sacrifice to the sky without the Nine Cauldrons attracted dissatisfaction with the way of heaven! The Qin State was unworthy of the princess of the world and other rumors! The key is that the Qin Dynasty really perished without going too far!

The merits of the Qin Dynasty, which the generations of emperors who worked hard for, were completely denied. From ridicule to being useless, Mount Tai became an indelible stain on the Qin Emperor. The demise of Qin was really a loss of Yongzhou tripod and lost its virtue.

Is it related? This is not mentioned later.

When Qin Shihuang passed by Sishui after the sacrifice to heaven, he didn't know if he was angry because of his previous sarcasm for him. He was there Ying Zheng fasted and prayed, and ordered more than a thousand people to salvage the Nine Cauldrons in the water. He spent three days in vain but found nothing!

This naturally caused a lot of Confucian scholars to sarcastically. At this time, they had already regarded Qin Emperor Ying Zheng as a joke.
Chapter completed!